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    Error when Launching NX4

    I have installed NX4 on a laptop (windows XP) to do a demo. I have installed the Flexlm license manager and that runs ok. However, when I launch NX, I get the following error:- ####################################################### Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library. Runtime Error...
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    Knowledge Fusion :- A Beginner

    I am trying to get my head around knowledge fusion as a language (trying to stop myself from using GRIP) I starting with something simple: - create equally spaced points along a spline. I can select the spline, I can even create points on it, but not along it, they are all on top of each...
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    Cheers John, Where theres a will, theres a way!!!! P....
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    For hose of you who may be interested, I've cracked it. The extra line of code is:- viewe/DWG+'@0',scale,0.001 cheers, P......
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    Ok, this is the quick & dirty programme I wrote to test the theory. The problem is when the dawing is activated, the system automatically does a 'FIT' this makes the entities which are outside the draiwng off the display. This means that they are not selected as the 'INEXTE/' will only cycle...
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    Understand, Cheers chaps.......
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    This might seem a dumb question, how do I select all on the active sheet with GRIP. Cheers, Pondering
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    Partfile Checking Using GRIP

    I have been given a task to automate as much as possible the task of part file checking drawings (non masters) as ‘Checkmate’ (NX2) does not contain sufficient checks for us. Most stuff is straight forward layers etc...... But. I am creating a check to check of drafting entities outside the...
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    Part Attributes in the ANT

    Is it possible to display the value of a part attribute in the assembly navigator? Cheers, P......
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    Expressions & Part Attributes

    Does anybody know a method of creating a 'Part Attribute' from an expression value, so that if the value changes, the Part Attribute also updates itself? Cheers in advance, Pondering
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    Fond farewell to GRIP, hello Knowledge Fusion

    The time has finally happened when I must leave my friendly world of GRIP and migrate to KF. I am now staring from scratch and teaching myself!!!! (Again) The online documentation does not initially seam as good as GRIP with no worked examples & very little in the way of example code or...
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    GRIP Question, Close Child Parts in an Assembly

    Greetings, I am writing little grip program which will open an parent assembly (no components) then cycle through & load the child components, section the component at TDC, then close the child part before opening the next part. I know how to get a list of the components (there was something...
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    Another Grip Question

    I have a load of entites on a dawing format which are in a named group. How do I get them into a object list so that i can manipulate them as a group? (must have killed to many brin cells over xmas!!!) Cheers in Advnace, P.............
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    GRIP

    Cheers, Just what I was after
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    GRIP

    Hi, I have variuos text strings on a DWG, These individual text strings are all named 'string1, string2 etc'. Does any have a short bit of example code which will select these text strings by there name (no user selection), read them into a string variable, and then print them to the...

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